[panzer_grey]

I am a big supporter of Israel, but anybody who doubts this was a deliberate attack by the IDF is sadly uninformed or simple minded.

[Cindy]

Ditto.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I tangled with an Israeli Freeper (forgot his name) last year who insisted (quite aggressively) that the whole thing was an accident.

However, since naval history is in my line of work, I've done a LOT of primary research on the attack and I have no doubt that the Israeli defense forces knew exactly what they were doing, especially when their patrol boats swarmed the Liberty and torpedoed her. Lyndon Johnson and Dean Rusk thought so too at the time, but were very much afraid of encouraging the Soviets to enter the war by condemning and abandoning Israel.

[Publius6961]

I am a big supporter of Israel, but anybody who doubts this was a deliberate attack by the IDF is sadly uninformed or simple minded.

Simple-minded #6961 reporting.
Although I will enjoy the usual suspects making all the facile conclusions to make Israel or the US or both to look like bumbling fools, I believe the facts are quite a bit more complex.

How many billions$ ayear were we giving Egypt then? How many do we give them annually today?

Without declassifying the truly embarrassing facts, no one can ever know if the US was passing on tactical data to the muslims. If that were the case, Israel was totally justified in attacking whomever was aiding the enemy (for whatever reason) during the intense fighting.

It's called survival.